Head over to Onslaught Harbor to the west of Death's Rise and find a safe spot to land, then use the the Bone Gryphon to hop on. Use Bone Armor whenever the cooldown is finished. When fighting the Onslaught Gryphon Riders, start off with Plague Strike and spam Frost Breath until the rider is dead. Kill ten riders to complete the quest.

If your Bone Gryphon's health is low, find a safe spot to dismount and re-summon it. You'll hop on a new Bone Gryphon will full health.

When turning in the quest, make sure to dismount your Bone Gryphon and use your own mount to fly back to Death's Rise. If you leave Onslaught Harbor, you will get a warning that says you might lose your Bone Gryphon. Although it's possible to get to Death's Rise while on the Bone Gryphon, you should just play it safe and use your own mount.

Of course, you can always kill the riders the old fashioned way: with your own weapons and spells. :)

Comment by tobindax

blizzard should start playing the quests they're designing.

besides the fact it's densely populated by npcs, the agro of flying npcs is completely bugged, they attack you in hordes and even if you're dismounted but near them you may agro 3 or 4 for no reason.

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Comment by Kreen

just another in a long line of annoying quests

Comment by warc3

As a feral druid, the gryphon is worthless. Just learn the pathing patterns of the riders, and you can fight about 7 of them at once at the top of some towers. Try the taller towers first, particularly the one to the right as you exit the cathedral building.

Comment by Goatsemilk

I dont see why you should do this quest on the Bone Gryphon instead of just killing them yourself, your DPS on the Gryphon is really terrible and doing then the normal way is probably much faster for just about any class.

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Comment by pHishr

Try using this thing underwater and then going up to the surface and to Onslaught Harbor =p There will be no mobs :<It serves no purpose but just for fun :)

EDIT: Wasn't ment to be a reply :S

Comment by pHishr

Try using this thing underwater and then going up to the surface and to Onslaught Harbor =p There will be no mobs :<It serves no purpose but just for fun :)

Comment by Mokazumi

it is a cool quest, and it's not hard to kill the riders. your best bet is to avoid the large groups (obviously) and go for the single stationary mobs around the cliffs.

don't try to go down close to the ground to avoid falling far if your gryphon dies. you'll get aggro from the other mobs on the ground and you're nice and screwed then.

and despite what you may think do not attempt to fly back to Death's Rise on the gryphon. i thought i could make it, but my speed boost was on cooldown and i lost it just short of reaching it. of course i was dumb and clicked off my parachute when i had water walking on....oww.

Comment by Kelannice

2. Plague Claw - Melee range, 12 second cooldown, puts a DoT on a gryphon. You always want this DoT on a Gryphon.

3. Bone Armor - Increases damage by 35%, and decreases damage done to you by about 50%, lasts 5 mins but is removed when you are hit 5 times. You want this on whenever possible

4. Sprint - increases Movement speed by 100%,Use this to kite.

Your bone gryphon can only fight 3-4 gryphons at a time, aggro any more and your gryphon WILL die. Once your gryphon dies you will eject and parachute down while gryphons are hitting you.

If you have an AOE you can take advantage of this. Just get on your gryphon and aggro how ever many you think you can handle then fly low and start DPSing them until your gryphon dies, then AOE the rest down.

There is also an even easier way of doing this without even getting on your gryphon! However, it is risky and you may die. All you need to do is get onto the highest tower on the wall, the first one you see as you enter the harbor should have a gryphon on it with a chest as well. Rest on top of the wall, kill the Gryphon, then as the pair of pats run around, you should be in casting distance of them so aggro the pair. However, you are also in their aggro range and if they fly to close, which they usually do, you will have another 2 gryphons on you, this can keep happening because there are multiple pair of pats patrolling the entire island. This is why this strategy is so risky, you have no control of how many you will aggro, sometimes i find 6+ on me sometimes and i end up dying. However, doing the quest this way will take the shortest time if you don't die.

Comment by Tribunal

Baron will be ticked that someone stole his..... Gryphon?

Maybe it's secretly really a Hippogryph...

Comment by DOCNFOID

Personally I find it easier to just get on the griffin and use it.

The best way of doing this, in my experience, is to shoot a griffin rider with the frost bolt, then try to get another one or two off as he's coming to you, and then hit him with the plague talon; it will turn him green.

Then just fly away and start flying around him in circles because they seem to do melee damage (at least when i let them stay in melee range I take much more damage even with bone shield).

So just basically fly around them in circles and spam frost breath and you won't take very much damage.

Two griffins are no problem with this method, I haven't tried to aggro more and personally I don't see how you would aggro more than two at a time unless you're trying or not paying attention. One griffin easily lasts me the whole mission with this tactic. Hope it helps :3 Also, it helps if you play 'Surfin Bird' by The Trashmen while doing this mission.

Comment by Ihmemies

The gryphon was awfully slow and clumsy. I just flew around with my own mount and killed 10 riders. There were towertops, cliffs etc. next to gryphon riders so it was no problem to get near them.

Comment by Ironsharp

Landing on the tower at 8.48, 44.35, around 9 riders will pass by and attack you, allowing you to finish most of this quest fairly quickly.

Comment by travellingbard

Posted some strange quirks associated with using the provided Bone Gryphon over on the item's page. Just a quick overview:

1. It's bugged and has a chance to crash upon dismount since v3.1.2.99012. If you logout while mounted you will start at Joutemhiem graveyard

Comment by Babakiller

For max dps on the griphon, use bone armor in combo with the dot and also use auto attacks :)

Comment by stanchubb

patch 3.3.0 gives now 325 rep for Knights of Ebon Blade

Comment by Churenga

Here's a hunters story about this quest;

Deciding to use my own mount rather than the one provided I set about aggroing the gryphon riders around the edges of the island, dismount, send in the bear and proceed to kill the rider from the ground. I came unstuck when I fell off the rocks. The bear continued to kill the rider and I was in the water out of range. Trying to get back to the bear I encountered a shark so I ran onto the beach to get away from it (all this time the bear is still losing to 3 gryhon riders he's now managed to pull), I can't climb up the rocks high enough to either attack or heal the pet and of course I'm in battle so I can't get on my mount; I decide to cut my losses and just sit and wait until the bear dies, finally the bear dies and, you guessed it, the gryphons attack me, I'm now without a pet and being attacked by 2 of the remaining gryhons.... a quick feign death did the trick but now I know why they sometimes refer to us as "huntards".

:)

Comment by reidsb

Plague Strike now seems to have a knockback effect to it as well, making it a lot more useful, imho.